Melissa Fay Greene is the author of four critically acclaimed works of nonfiction, most recently There Is No Me Without You, the story of a foster mother in the midst of Ethiopia’s AIDS orphan crisis. A two-time National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Melissa has won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, the ACLU Civil Liberties Award, the Elle Readers Prize for nonfiction, and other honors. Her first book, Praying for Sheetrock, was named to New York University’s list of the 100 top works of American journalism of the 20th century. Melissa has been a contributor to NPR, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, LIFE, Good Housekeeping, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Readers Digest, Ms., The Wilson Quarterly, Redbook, and Salon.com.

She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Don Samuel, a criminal defense attorney. They have been married for 28 years and are the parents of nine children: Molly, Seth, Lee, Lily, Jesse (adopted from Bulgaria), Fisseha, Daniel, Yosef, and Helen (adopted from Ethiopia). Daughter Molly Samuel works for ForestEthics in San Francisco; Seth is pursuing a Masters in Music at the NYU/Steinhardt School of Music; Lee is a freshman at Oberlin College; and everyone else lives at home, often expressing disappointment with what is being served for dinner.

Visit Melissa online at www.ThereIsNoMeWithoutYou.com.